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Building a Modular Home
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Building a Modular Home
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" Tell us a little bit about simplex industries how old a company as well we started in 1971. Originally how we originally started was the fact that my grandfather immigrated here. From Italy in the twenties yeah and then he was in plumbing and heating business and one the first things the patent was say. Coal stoker called. A simplex coal stoker and this is was it was an automatic what's a coal -- Well it's call stuck in this area was a rich and underside -- I can't even got a town called anthracite that's right and what was it was an automatic worm feed meeting they use that the coal vent. And he used to automatic feed the coal into the into the fire pot. And I used to heat up the houses and what happened and so that company evolved into Steve Monica what it will probably what what happened was who have you know without the coal industry act going down. They needed to -- do something else and are always interesting construction so one day they're just in around the kitchen table and they talked about. Hey let's get into this out modular home industry and that's how and I'll start now. Pat what is the the basic difference between a stick built house and a modular house. Well there really isn't any difference on the fact that you know we're still using the same materials as -- that's stick built recycled on. I think that we're doing is we're filling -- You're still receiving flatbed trucks with. Two by fours and two by twelve halves if cavity yeah right differences when you -- an -- you're just getting a small truckload of lumber here -- of falsifying. Carlos truckloads and that's other material and -- and obviously we have more men here -- you know building -- control requirements we have different stations different departments. And what they do is they build they work as teams and they build a house basically it is cellular life. And as the house comes further down a similar line or markets whether it's. And of course the big advantages as you have to deal with the weather you've got right -- certain types because they'll fall months you know out of the year whether it's snow sleet rain. So a house like this Wendy Westport model could theoretically be built in a weakening and inside the plant here that's correct and it's a lovely house how big is that there. This is approximately -- 2500 square feet its say up workbox act Cape Cod style home so there are four modules that get put together correct. And as you say we have the airport China which gives a lot of curb appeal -- farmer's porch."
